Trita Parsi
Trita Parsi is founder and president of the National Iranian American Council and an expert on US-Iranian relations, Iranian foreign politics, and the geopolitics of the Middle East. He is author of author of Losing an Enemy - Obama, Iran and the Triumph of Diplomacy; A Single Roll of the Dice - Obama's Diplomacy with Iran; and Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States.
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Views Friday, June 09, 2017 As Iranians Vote For Peace, Trump Helps Saudi Arabia Pick Another Fight American policymakers must be smiling from ear to ear. In a country with 56 million eligible voters, more than 41 million Saudis voted in their presidential elections last Friday – the 12th such election over the past 38 years. Despite a litany of obstacles arbitrarily imposed by unelected... Read more |
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Views Monday, May 01, 2017 Much Ado About Nothing: Politico’s Iran Deal Investigation Debunked It is a sign of the times that when we need to march in defense of facts, of women deserving equal rights, and of science not being a Chinese conspiracy, we also have to defend something as self-evident as the undeniable value of the nuclear deal with Iran from 2015. But in a post-fact era, even... Read more |
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Views Sunday, April 09, 2017 Why Trump’s Syria Strike Will Not End Well U.S. President Donald Trump claims the objective of his cruise missile strike on Syria is to deter Syrian President Bashar Assad from using chemical weapons again. But six years into Syria’s brutal civil war, Trump does not have the luxury of defining his objective that narrowly. Whether he likes... Read more |
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Views Thursday, February 02, 2017 What Flynn Could Learn From Kerry About Iran Even the most inexperienced commander knows not to escalate without having de-escalatory options at hand. That is the most troubling issue with National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s harsh “ notice ” to Iran yesterday in response to Tehran’s ill-advised missile test. Flynn’s statement may have... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 02, 2017 If You Thought 2016 Was Bad in the Middle East - Brace Yourself for 2017 It is difficult to be optimistic about the Middle East in 2017. With the bloodshed in Aleppo, Mosul, Yemen and elsewhere in the region, the anger, hatred and sectarian divides have only grown deeper. Indeed, while some point to Tehran celebrating its victory in Aleppo, success on the battlefield is... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 01, 2015 Obama's Real Achievement With the Iran Deal One cannot help but feel sorry for President Barack Obama. After twenty months of painstaking negotiations with Iran and America's coalition partners, hours of hearings on Capitol Hill, countless closed briefings for lawmakers, and scores of articles and opinion pieces about the nuclear deal, few... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 30, 2015 Five Reasons Why an Iran Nuclear Deal Would Be Good for the US The criticism of the pending nuclear deal between Iran and world powers is intensifying. Opponents of the deal will spend millions of dollars on ads pushing the U.S. public and Congress to kill the deal in the next few days. But while a fortune already has been spent on nit-picking the ongoing... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 27, 2015 The Iran Talks Game Changer: An Israeli-Hezbollah War? There are signs Israel may be at war again this summer. This time, not with Hamas in Gaza but with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Such a war may be the result not only of spillover from the Syrian war or ongoing Israeli-Hezbollah tensions. The deciding factor may be an Israeli calculation that war will... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 15, 2015 A Summer of War or Peace with Iran This summer, the US Senate will choose between war and peace with Iran. If the right decision is made, Obama's pending nuclear deal with Iran will be sustained and both a war and an Iranian nuclear bomb will be avoided. If the wrong vote is cast, diplomacy will collapse and the US and Iran will... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 03, 2015 For Better US-Iran Relations, the Iranian People Are the Key American neoconservatives, Israeli hawks, and Arab dictators alike are haunted by the same nightmare: After a nuclear deal, the US and Iran will gravitate toward an unspoken alliance, after which the US will betray its security commitments to historical allies in the Middle East. No such thing will... Read more |